Since last checking in a month ago, today Duncan Sinfield gives us an update on progress at Apple’s under construction Campus 2 in his latest drone flyover video of the site.

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In the video, we see Apple’s progress in recent weeks including the continuation of the installation of the giant glass panels — the largest in the world — on the main building, as well as preparations for installing the nearly 700,000 sq. ft. of rooftop solar panels that will be on the site when complete.

We also see some progress made on the structures surrounding the main circular building, including the 100,000 sq. ft fitness center, the exterior of the underground auditorium entrance, the separate R&D facility, and the two parking garage facilities that will hold around 10,980 parking spaces.

Check out the full flyover video below:

Apple is still expected to complete construction on the site by the end of the year, but it recently extended its schedule for street utilities, originally thought to be completed at the end of 2014, through 2016 in its general project schedule on the City of Cupertino’s website (below).

If Apple finishes on schedule, it could start moving in the roughly 13,000 employees the new 2.8 million sq ft headquarters will hold by early 2017. And indeed Cook said at a recent shareholders meeting that the campus should be ready within the expected timeframe.

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Jordan writes about all things Apple as Senior Editor of 9to5Mac, & contributes to 9to5Google, 9to5Toys, & Electrek.co. He also co-authors 9to5Mac’s weekly Logic Pros series and makes music as one half of Toronto-based Makamachine.

9to5Mac never reported on 2 of the contractors getting the boot do to delays and not meeting deadlines, they just kept posting drone fotageand ignored Apple switching to a 3rd contractor to finish the project.

I’m working on a huge project in Brussels ‘Chambon’ which is a 250m€ project with loft houses, 280 appartments, a hotel, offices, etc. which is a huge project and is very challenging due to the size of it of course.

So I know how challenging projects of this size are, and from the videos I’ve seen over the last couple of months, it seems the construction is moving quite along. They construction really seems to be moving along quite well so congrats for that too.

I wonder how much Apple is involved in the construction of the building, I hope Jony doesn’t take too much credit for the design of the building because in the last video he said they use the longest curved glass in the world so that the view towards the landscape wouldn’t be interrupted. Believe me this comes from the architect himself, Norman Foster.